Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Manicula

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MANIC'ULA or MANIB'ULA. A cross bar on the top of the stiva, or handle of a plough, which the ploughman held in his hands to facilitate the operation of pressing the share into the soil, as exhibited in the annexed wood-cut (Manicula/1.1), from an Etruscan example. Varro, L. L. v. 135.

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  Manicula/1.1